Weblog of Wesley Fryer

Ever since I participated in my first skypecast, I’ve wanted and hoped to find a web-based tool that would permit interactive whiteboarding and even screensharing. Web 2.0 guru Cheryl Oakes is, as always, on top of the latest tool developments and brought Vyew.com to my attention in her latest Seedlings podcast on Bit-by-Bit. According to the website:

Vyew is a browser-based conferencing and always-on collaboration platform that provides instant visual communication without the need for client downloads or installations. Vyew’s multimedia workspace enables shared viewing of presentations, files, photos and one’s desktop. Included are tools for whiteboarding, annotating, text chatting, and phone conferencing.

I can’t wait to try it for myself! Commercial tools like MacroMedia Breeze and Windows LiveMeeting are powerful and cool– but pretty expensive. In the education space particularly I’m much more interested and excited about open source and web 2.0 tools– and Vyew is both web-based and free to use now during the beta period! If you sign up now, they will give you 2 years of free use of the tool after the beta expires. I’m in!

I wonder if this is something we’d want to try and use during the culminating 24 hour skypecast we’ve discussed having for K-12 online?

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